Some blow-back on the ISIS horror

Arab World Unites in Anger After Burning of Jordanian Pilot
"There was one feeling that many of the Middle East’s fractious clerics, competing ethnic groups and warring sects could agree on Wednesday: a shared sense of revulsion at the Islamic State’s latest excess, its video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive inside a cage."
. . . Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (right), the head of Cairo’s thousand-year-old Al Azhar institute and a leading Sunni scholar, was so angered that he called for the Islamic State’s extremists to be “killed, or crucified, or their hands and legs cut off.” . . .

Obama: "Whatever ideology they are operating under is “bankrupt.”

"He didn’t want to talk about the pilot being set afire. He wanted to “talk about how to make people healthier and make their lives better.” 

In contrast to our president: Jordan Chooses Sides  . . . "From a political perspective, the executions were necessary. The video of the execution was as brutal as it was scarring. It has circulated widely in Arabic chat forums and elsewhere online. Jordanians, who are already critical of their king, want action. To do anything but execute Sajida would be to hand the Islamic State (ISIS) a victory by effectively cowing to their demands that Jordan stand down. Frankly, she should have died years ago in order to bring justice for the families of her victims. The king demurred, however, effectively commuting her sentence in order to appease her supporters and, alas, in Jordan there are many. Her execution, however, underscores that King Abdullah II has recognized that in the battle against Islamist extremism, Jordan can no longer be neutral." . . . Michael Rubin in Commentary Magazine

Islam and Appeasement  . . . "Premature absolution of Islam is now the knee jerk response to all atrocity. Never mind that most terror groups are Muslim and proudly array themselves with all the predictable kit: incantations, black surah flags, the Koran, the Hadith, beards, and burkas -- all in the name of Mohammed. Somehow we are supposed to believe that none of this has anything to do with true Islam." . . .

Does ISIS risk blowback, or is there a plan?  . . . "Another possibility is that ISIS wants to appear as the biggest, baddest strong horse, and thereby appeal to the widespread desire among Arabs, and Muslims more generally, for revenge."

To desecrate the victim while alive is part and parcel of Islam in hope that people would convert through sheer fear or to repulse the enemy.

Another ISIS Atrocity . . . "Be under no illusions: At the strategic level, our current efforts are failing. Moreover, the fanatics are advancing westward. Shrouded in self-assumed holiness, the Islamic State believes it will achieve global dominion."
"The path we must take is hard but clear. Paying heed to the good life of Moaz al-Kasasbeh, we must finish his fight and rid the world of those who murdered him."   

It will not be led by the feckless Obama. He will dither and appease for the next two years and when out of office he will demagogue Conservatives for any struggles in the war. And he will do this in his shirtsleeves before the usual smiling, adoring sycophants

Biden's strong point: he's never boring

By Gary Varvel

"Joe Biden is a decent guy, but man, that guy can just talk and talk... It's an incredible thing to see." Barack Obama

Biden Considers Snubbing Netanyahu By Skipping His Address To Congress…

"Considering Biden’s very public seat during Netanyahu’s address this would drag our special relationship with Israel to yet another new low, which is exactly what Obama wants."

And the crowning glory of Bidenisms, discussed in the UK Telegraph:

For Joe Biden, his plagiarisation of a speech delivered by Neil Kinnock, then Labour leader, helped put pay to his own campaign to win the Democrats' presidential nomination more than 20 years ago.

"NEIL KINNOCK at Welsh Labour Party conference May 1987:

"Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand"

JOE BIDEN IN Sept 1987 during his first presidential campaign:

"Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go a university? Why is it that my wife... is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? ...Is it because they didn't work hard? My ancestors who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come after 12 hours and play football for four hours? It's because they didn't have a platform on which to stand."

The Ghosts of Auschwitz in the Middle East

Sultan Knish

"In exile in Argentina, the world’s most wanted man was writing a defense of the indefensible. He rejected “so-called Western culture” whose bible “expressly established that everything sacred came from the Jews.” Instead he looked to the “large circle of friends, many millions of people” whose good opinion of his crimes he wanted. These millions of people were not in Germany. They weren’t even in Argentina. His fellow Nazis had abandoned him after deciding that the murder of millions of Jews was indefensible and had to be denied instead of defended.

. . .

"Eichmann knew he could expect a good verdict from a religion whose prophet had ordered the ethnic cleansing of Jews and which believes the end will “not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. When a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree, it will say, ‘O Muslim, O servant of Allah! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’”
"There was Eichmann’s Hadith Holocaust with even the rocks and trees finding Jews for the Islamic SS."

. . .

"Eichmann’s Nazis lost, but the Mufti’s Islamists continue their genocidal agenda. Mein Kampf may be banned in Germany, but it’s a bestseller in the Muslim world.

. . .

"It was easier to appease the Nazis. It is easier to appease the Muslim world. The Jews were not seen as a canary in the coalmine; instead, like the Czechs and then the Poles and then everyone else, they were an obstacle to making a deal with the devil. Today it’s the Nigerian Christians, the Burmese Buddhists and a long list of others around the world including the Jews of Israel who stand in the way of peace.

"The Holocaust and the entire war happened because everyone wanted peace with Nazi Germany and refused to accept that Nazism was innately aggressive. 

"Eichmann envisioned Nazis and Muslims as victims[!]"

. . .

"Auschwitz is what happens when we fail to take threats like that seriously because we want peace at any price. The price of peace was Auschwitz, it was millions dead, countries carved to pieces, peoples enslaved for years and others for generations. The price of peace was ignorance, apathy and then war.

"Eichmann found support for Auschwitz in the “surahs of your Koran.” So did the Jihadis who murdered Jews in Paris. If we forget that, then we forget the real lesson of Auschwitz."  Emphasis mine, TD

It was hard to stop posting such meaningful excerpts, but there is more:  Full article here.

See the depravity of the Ismalic State Graphic and sickening still shots. I cannot watch the video because I will never be able to unsee the images.

Why? Who can say why?

Steve Kelley

Harvard business professor on Religious Freedom

Orthodox Christian News  "You may feel that religious freedom is the result of democracy. Have you considered that the reverse may be true? Watch this short and powerful statement from Clay Christensen on the actual relationship between religion and democracy. Then think about the trends you see around you in Western culture, where many feel the influence of religion is waning. What might the future hold for democratic nations? . . .

Clay Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management faculty groups.

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Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, CA

Alan Caruba: "Terrorists and Our Idiot President"

Warning Signs  "You know something is terribly wrong when three former Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger, George Schultz and Madeleine Albright tell a Senate Armed Services Committee that the President of the United States is an idiot with no idea how to conduct foreign affairs. Well, they didn’t say it in those words, but that was pretty much the message. That was January 29." . . .

. . . "Thanks to Barack Obama, the United States of America can no longer be seen as the world leader, opposing the forces that seek to impose control. Former allies, particularly in the Middle East, no longer have any confidence that we would come to their defense if they were attacked.

"Thanks to Barack Obama, our enemies have been emboldened and our allies confused, but it is not that confusing. He is an idiot who lacks any grasp of history’s lessons and he is a coward who cannot be expected to seriously respond to our own and our allies’ enemies."

And I personally know people who still gloat over Obama being elected twice (along with Obama himself)

Netanyahu - who thinks Obama weak and naive about Iran - feels compelled to put his political hide on the line in order to warn Congress and the American people of the Iranian threat.

Cartoon update: Jordanian pilot burned alive by ISIS; just one of thousands of Muslims brutally murdered by Islamic radicals.

Update:Real Clear Politics

Code Pink and other activists joined in protest against this brutal murder...what?...wait...no? 

Did any folk singers sing songs for the Muslim and non-Muslim victims of Islamic radicals such as ISIS? 

A screengrab from an ISIS video reporting to show Jordanian
 Pilot Muath al-Kasasba prior to being burned alive. We assume
 that is a fire accelerant poured on his clothes

barenakedislam.com

Religion of Peace

Jordan to execute jailed would-be bomber, jihadists  "The sentence of death pending on... Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi will be carried out at dawn," the security official said on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
. . .  " 'The death sentence will be carried out on a group of jihadists, starting with Rishawi, as well as Iraqi Al-Qaeda operative Ziad Karbuli and others who attacked Jordan's interests," the security source said." . . .

Jordan vows 'earth-shaking' response to pilot's killing

The UK Daily Mail has much on this

CAIR: U.S. Muslims to Condemn ISIS's "un-Islamic" Killing of Jordanian Pilot

Later today, representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other national and local leaders of the American Muslim community will hold a news conference at the Muslim civil rights organization's Capitol Hill headquarters in Washington, D.C., to condemn the terror group ISIS's "unspeakable and anti-Islamic" brutality in the burning alive of a Jordanian air force pilot.

Islamic State Fatwa Cites “Prophet” Mohammed Burning Apostates Alive To Justify Burning Of Jordanian Pilot…  Oh, well..OK then. Forgive my racist reaction.

Obama´s Nonsensical Claim That 99.9% of Muslims Reject Radical Islam

"Why does this man lie? Because we let him."  Lucianne

Oh, incidentally, Seattle Muslims Demand Teacher Be Canned For Showing Muhammad Cartoons To Teens  . . . "The teacher under fire, Deepa Bhandaru, displayed the images for the group of teenage students last month, the day after the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, The Seattle Globalist reports." . . .

When Democrats say "investments", grab your wallet and hold on tight

For example this:  HuffPo:Obama's budget highlights "investments to curb pollution..."

comicallyincorrect.com

The top 10 new taxes in Obama's budget   . . . "Every single dime of that would go to fund new spending schemes by the president.  Zero would be applied to the deficit, which the CBO says will hit a trillion dollars by 2025.

"Here are a few of them (All amounts raised reflect the total over 10 years.):" . .Rick Moran .

Republicans blow it on response to Obama budget  . . . "If this is the 2016 presidential campaign in a nutshell – and yeah, it is – then Republicans might as well just forfeit the race to Hillary today and save a billion dollars, because we've already lost." . . . 

   

Michael Barone: Obama’s Taxed Himself into a Corner  "Absent serious entitlement reform, Democrats will have no choice but to raise taxes on the middle class."

I am apologizing #LikeAGirl for Super Bowl Ads’ #WarOnMen/ The leftists have won!

Legal Insurrection  . . . "The runaway favorite commercials feature cute puppies and horses. One particular ad, however, brought out an entirely different animal in me: The Mama Grizzly.

"I have a serious recommendation to T-Mobile executives: Fire the idiot feminists and their beta-male minions who came up with this commercial:

"The dialog for one of the scenes, in which Sarah Silverman & Chelsea Handler characters duel over first-world lifestyle quality, has Sarah Silverman’s insipid character inform a newborn’s mother: “I’m sorry, it’s a boy.”

"It was a real piece of #WarOnMen propaganda. . . 

Pan right, and have Silverman’s character whisper, “I’m sorry, it’s a girl.”The blow-back from NOW and all the other elite feminist groups would have been of Category 5 Hurricane proportions, with the T-Mobile executives dutifully making the rounds to all the talk shows on their apology tour. After a vitriolic social media campaign in which the participants would be likened to Boko Haram rapists, the company would have been compelled to donate millions to girls’ educational programs and the feminist organizations leading the charge. 

. . .

"There was no need to sacrifice a young man on the altar of political correctness to appease the self esteem of teen girls.

"Shame on the executives at Always who green-lighted this commercial.

Leaders of feminist groups behave as if they speak for all women. Well, today, I am usurping the “All Women” Speaker’s role, and I formally apologize, #LikeAGirl, to all Super Bowl fans who were subjected to these vapid excuses for female empowerment." . . .  Leslie Eastman

I’m done with the Super Bowl. The leftists have won.   . . . "I’m pretty sure the NFL has some say in the ads that get broadcast.  I’m pretty sure NBC really doesn’t care what ads are on as long as they get their dough.  But as a viewer and occasional football fan, I care.  I watch for entertainment.  Not to get judged.  I don’t watch the Super Bowl to be told we need to “have a conversation”.  Save the “conversations” for another day.  If that’s the future direction of the Super Bowl, then I’ll spend my time on something more worthwhile.  The left-wing ad execs have won.  They killed it.  The Super Bowl is now officially yet another propaganda outlet for left-wing psychology.  As if we needed another one.

Busted; Every Sharpton business known has been dissolved for failure to comply with tax rules.

NRO . . . "“Carelessness was his hallmark,” Mercado-Valdes says. Was it worse than that? “Carelessness, yes. Complete disregard for the little laws? Yes, some powerful people are like that. . . . [Sharpton] was someone who, because of the nature of his organization, just between his nonprofit and his for-profits and his personal life, just had a very ad-hoc approach to organization.”

"Sharpton has had brushes with the law. In 1990, a jury found him not guilty of 67 counts of fraud and larceny, though three years later, the reverend pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tax charge.

"Later, the Federal Election Commission found that National Action Network had inappropriately paid for expenses related to Sharpton’s 2004 presidential campaign.

"Last March, Jeri Wright, a former president of the Chicago branch of National Action Network and the daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s former pastor, was convicted of money laundering after participating in a fraud scheme involving another nonprofit.

. . .

" 'Yet the reverend’s financial woes and big-spending lifestyle may be catching up to him, says Carl Redding, a former Sharpton aide who has since publicly criticized the reverend.

“ 'What he’s doing is negligent,” Redding says, adding that he can’t fathom why, after all of Sharpton’s past tax troubles, the reverend continues to make the same financial mistakes.

“ 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Redding says. “I believe that Sharpton has become so powerful it’s diluting everything about him. The African-American community doesn’t trust Sharpton anymore. He’s living in a fantasy world if he thinks he has credibility."

That’s rich: Environmentalists praise the Saudis as an ally in fight against Keystone

Hot Air

. . . "Today, however, it seems alliances are shifting wildly. Once the all-purpose boogie man for progressives, the Saudis are now proving to be allies of convenience in their fight against Keystone.

“Environmentalists are depending on President Barack Obama’s veto pen to block the project–at least until the State Department issues its final ruling in the matter,” The Sierra Club’s Paul Rauber wrote. “But we have another, even more potent ally in the fight: the House of Saud.”

“Rather than cutting back production in order to stabilize oil prices, the world’s largest oil producer is keeping its petroleum taps wide open, hoping to drown upstart competitors in Canada, North Dakota, and Russia in a sea of cheap oil,” he added." . . .

CNN ‘Totally Biased’ Against Republicans [VIDEO]; Other items on Media bias as well

Daily Caller  . . . "Navarrette didn’t just lay blame with CNN, saving his harshest words for Univision, telling Malzberg they’re a shill for the Democratic Party and that he doesn’t blame the GOP for not kowtowing and giving a primary debate to Univision.

“ 'Univision has shown itself to be a partisan network in favor of Democrats, making Democrats look good, making Republicans look bad,” Navarrette said. “I don’t think the RNC owes them anything and I think it’s time we spoke honestly about what Univision is. It’s a shill for the Democratic Party.' ”

Completely Non-Biased WH Reporter Expects To “Probably Cry” When Obama Finally Leaves Office  " April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, really loves President Obama." . .

Rand Paul scolds CNBC anchor  Well, their name does contain the letters N, B, C after all.  "Rand Paul Tears into CNBC Anchor for ‘Misleading’ Questions on Vaccines, Taxes: ‘Try a Little Objectivity’

"(Mediaite) Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) showed his impassioned side Monday afternoon during a heated interview with CNBC anchor Kelly Evans on forced vaccinations, a bipartisan corporate tax holiday bill, and accusations of “conflict of interest.' ”  Video